Strong agree. I’m likely to request to be cremated when my time comes. In 60 years no-one will remember me, no-one will be visiting my grave.

once you die, it’s just meat.

i’ve looked into everything from the logistics of transporting my corpse to tibet for a sky burial, to the legality of having it to fed to wolves on a nature reserve.

the worst/best idea i’ve had so far is to have the reading of my will accompanied by a viewing of the body as it is consumed by scavenger animals, and whoever doesn’t watch forfeits their portion of the will to charity. a “coinage for carnage” exchange, if you will.

Whew, that is definitely an unpopular opinion.

I would, however, suggest you consider the benefits of centralized burial like cemeteries. They allow for ease of regulation, and that is key to being able to mitigate any drawbacks of everyone doing what they want with bodies.

Tossing you in the dumpster might be fine as far as that goes, but only if the dumpster is taken somewhere that is also centralized. Bodies just being dropped anywhere to rot are a health and environmental hazard. Not saying the usual options are always better, but they do minimize how far any effects can spread.

Mind you, you also overlook the social and emotional aspects of why humans bury their dead. It’s obviously not a factor you care about, but others do. When you deny the ability to grieve in structured ways, the chances of that grief becoming a greater harm increases. Closure really is a thing, and graves allow a path to that.

Now, I would prefer my body be left in an out of the way place and left to rot. So I don’t disagree with that part of your opinion. It’s the reasoning that’s iffy.

Graves are for the living. I’d prefer not to have one, but I’m not going to make demands of the living over it. After all, it’s their funeral.

Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. — Yogi Berra

Inhumation has been practiced for hundreds of thousands of years. It’s about as basic to human existence as fire, pottery, and agriculture, if not more. Inhumation will cease exactly when there is one human person left on earth, and this unpopular opinion will be dead and buried long before that.

When I die toss me in the nearest dumpster.

Still a crap idea. Cremate me and fertilize a tree with the ashes.

When I die toss me in the nearest dumpster.

Burial is sanitary and even a purely logical vulcan society would most likely dispose of their dead in a regionally centralized fashion to minimize the environmental effects of thousands of members of their society dying of natural causes everyday.

By this logic everything we’re doing is worthless and pointless because the sun is going to explode so we shouldn’t worry about saving anything because it’s just going to be exploded.